How to Say "Spinach" in Mandarin

菠菜

bōcài

The Mandarin word for spinach is 菠菜 (bōcài).

菠菜 refers to the particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea.

Meaning: a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea (noun)

How do you pronounce it?

The romanization is bōcài.

In certain contexts, 菠菜 is used as a slang term or euphemism for 博彩, which means 'gambling'.
In Chinese culinary tradition, 菠菜 is often blanched and dressed with sesame oil and garlic rather than being served raw in a salad.
The character 菜 in 菠菜 is a versatile word that can mean 'vegetable', 'dish' or even 'to be bad at a skill'.

你喜歡菠菜嗎？
Do you like spinach?
This sentence is useful for asking if someone likes 菠菜.
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她強迫他吃菠菜。
She forced him to eat spinach.
This sentence shows how to describe someone being forced to eat 菠菜.
Tatoeba #6937159 by xjjAstrus, translation #887119 by CK
我吃了一些菠菜。
I ate some spinach.
This sentence is useful for stating that you ate some 菠菜.
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请给我一些菠菜。
Please give me some spinach.
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Xiaowen and Haoran are shopping for groceries together.

晓雯 Xiaowen

我们要买菠菜吗？
Wǒmen yào mǎi bōcài ma?
Do we need to buy spinach?
浩然 Haoran

买一点吧，我想喝菠菜汁。
Mǎi yīdiǎn ba, wǒ xiǎng hē bōcàizhī.
Let's buy some, I want to drink spinach juice.
晓雯 Xiaowen

这里的菠菜看起来很新鲜。
Zhèlǐ de bōcài kàn qǐlái hěn xīnxiān.
The spinach here looks very fresh.
浩然 Haoran

太好了，拿一袋吧。
Tài hǎole, ná yī dài ba.
Great, let's take a bag.

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